Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889), Novelist(William) Wilkie Collins
Sitter in 25 portraits
Collins is one of the best-loved Victorian novelists. Having trained as a lawyer, he abandoned this profession to write. His works include The Woman in White, 1860, and The Moonstone, 1868, an early 'detective' novel that influenced later writers including Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. He was a regular contributor to his close friend Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words.
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG x134577
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
NPG D39296
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